Empowering mothers as natural leaders creating regenerative cultures

25th-31st July - Téreny, Hungary

As mothers facing the world’s ecological crises, social injustice and climate emergency, many of us are searching for an appropriately healthy response.

This Mother Nature training seeks to empower us to find our own responses that feel meaningful and inspires a sense of peace, contribution and interconnection.

Our role of mothers as leaders of our families and in our communities is critical to moving humanity toward regenerative cultures and ecological sustainability. Over this week we explore tools of leadership and nature connection to support that will help us personally and collectively.

The course will be held in English.

During the week long training we will be coming together to share best practices and harvest collective wisdom about being leaders as mothers, nature connection, supporting ourselves as mothers, our children, teenagers and older children, and green lifestyle tips. 

We will be deeply immersed in nature for the week, based in Green School, Terény, Hungary. Evenings will be around nourishing fires under starry skies.

The aim of the course is to provide personal development and learning tools for mothers and professionals supporting mothers and to contribute to the development of the new Mother Nature II. learning tools.

DURING THE WEEK YOU WILL:

  • Gain an embodied experience of mother circle in a natural setting

  • Embody yourself as a leader and change agent in our complex, changing and unpredictable times 

  • Experience the holding power or Nature and the circle and solo time outdoors

  • Co-create a container that allows collective wisdom to come through

  • Listen and be listened to, sharing our experience and challenges and find ways to reframe them.

Conditions of participation

The funded programme is open to mothers and professionals from Italy, Slovenia, Hungary and UK. It is possibile to apply from other countries, at your own costs.

Costs for travel, food and accomodation are covered by Erasmus+ programme.

  • Accomodation and food are totally covered by the Erasmus + programme.

  • Travel costs will be reimbursed after the course, up to 275€ (please contact us if costs of travel are a financial barrier to your participation).

You will have the unique chance to take with a very reasonable fee thanks to the funding from the Erasmus+ programme for this project.

You will be asked to pay a financial contribution based on your country of residence and your economic background.

Suggestion contributions are on a sliding scale of: 

100 - 250 € in Hungary

120 - 300 € in Slovenia

180 -500 € in Italy

180 -500 €  (£150- £450) in the UK

Limited full paying places available for people outside of the project countries, please contact for details

  • The training needs full participation.

  • The course language is English

  • Apply by the 31th of May Postponed! Apply by the 15th of June!

Need more information?

Ask Sara: mothernaturejourney@gmail.com

Methodology

The methodology will be based on principles and values of informal education:

  • Experiential learning 

  • Diverse nature, art and body-based techniques

  • Safe and inspiring learning space 

  • Learners co-create their learning process

We will use practices based on:

  • Permaculture 

  • Cultural Emergence

  • The Work that Reconnects

  • Mindfulness

  • Natural Cycles and Medicine Wheel

  • Way of Council

  • Ecotherapy

  • Forest bathing

You will experience learning processes with:

  • Nature connection practices

  • Artwork

  • Embodiment practices

  • Group work

  • Solo reflective time

Trainers info

Looby Macnamara

Looby Macnamara is mother, author, facilitator, designer, gardener and song leader. She is author of Cultural Emergence, People and Permaculture, 7 Ways to Think Differently and Strands of Infinity. 

People and Permaculture Is the first book globally to translate the use of permaculture principles and design for people based systems. She is creator of the Design Web, a holistic design framework that has been used thousands of times globally for all sorts of personal and social designs. 

She lives on a 20 acre smallholding in Herefordshire, where she runs an education and demonstration centre - Applewood Permaculture Centre. She is a mother of 2 wonderful daughters aged 14 and 22.  Looby has co-developed the Cultural Emergence toolkit with Jon Young to support personal and global shifts towards a regenerative culture.

Learn more on www.cultural-emergence.com and www.LoobyMacnamara.com

Ági Berecz

Ági has worked in environmental education since 2004, establishing and leading the Eco Corner environmental educational programme. Being inspired by ecopsychology, deep ecology and the path of yoga, her interest has been shifting to personal transformation towards a life-sustaining society. She lives in a Hungarian village, teaches yoga, studies integral psychology and above all is the mother of two young girls. Mother Nature is a European project she set up with colleagues to support personal transformation of mothers. On behalf of Pandora Association she facilitates workshops based on Joanna Macy’s group work, the Work That Reconnects.

Jana lemke

Jana is a Berlin-based author, yoga teacher and psychologist and worked for several years in research, particularly on mindfulness and the human experience of the rest of nature. She currently works as a systemic therapist in her own practice. Jana is also a trained process facilitator in wild nature and has facilitated and accompanied several programmes focussing on Solo times in nature. Her particular passions are working with women, facilitating transformational processes, particularly rites of passage, and exploring the transformational power of connecting with the more-than-human world. She is also a curious mother of two boys.

Learn more about her book here:
www.sidestone.com/books/exploring-human-nature

FAQ

  • Unfortunately, for this training, we do not offer any childcare opportunity or the option to bring a carer (the venue is not big enough to host us all!)

    We hope that this will be an opportunity for you to take some me-time, to nourish yourself and recharge!

  • Yes, we have a few places for that (so make sure you apply as soon as possible!)

    You will have to pay for your own costs, that means: 203€ for food and accommodation for the whole week, the training fee (from 180€ to 500€ - you decide) and the travel

LOCATION

 

The training venue is the Green School, in Tereny, Hungary, surrounded by nature.

Participants will be accommodated in rooms with 3 or 4 bunk beds . 

Food will be vegetarian, made out of local organic vegetables.

Write to Sara (mothernaturejourney@gmail.com) for more information.